Summary: Moist von Lipwig is a thief. Not the usual "thief in the night" type. No, Moist is a master of making people think what he wants them to think. And a few slight of hand tricks don't hurt either. After his capture and subsequent execution at the hands of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, he is offered a job as Postmaster General. But there might be a slight catch: 40 years worth of backlog and stiff competition from the clacks (a semaphore/telegraph type operation).
Thoughts: Ah, a classic good vs. evil book. Except in this case, good is personified by a criminal working on the right side of the law. Takes some creative thinking to bring down a bad guy, ya? Plus this book is sprinkled with the kinds of random amusing comments that dot all Pratchett books as far as I know (although I'm not sure anything can beat "Better marching had been done. And it had been done by penguins")
I think I've figured out why I've gotten so annoyed around the endings of most of the books: When I get near the end, someone nearby invariably distracts me and I fail to ignore them and return to my book to a sufficient degree to enjoy it. Well, now that I know, maybe I can avoid it, ya?
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